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Arteriorrhaphy is the medical term for suture of an artery. This is when a surgeon will close up an artery. If an artery was severed, they would reattach both sides of the blood vessel walls, like stitching up a deep cut. A related term, angiorrhaphy, means suture of any vessel.

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Pericardiorrhaphy means to suture the tissue surrounding the heart. Cardiorrhaphy is surgical suture of the heart itself.
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Ventriculorrhaphy is the medical term meaning surgical suture of the ventricle. Ventriculorrhaphy may be used to repair a laceration to the wall of the heart's lower chambers.

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Cardiomyorrhaphy is surgical suturing of the heart muscle.

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